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...Karine A operation--Fathi Razem, deputy chief of Arafat's navy; Fuad Shubaki, head of finance for the National Security Force; and Adel Mughrabi, a naval officer--are in Arafat's jails now. But there was sublime hypocrisy in that. The panel that fingered them was headed by Abdel Razak Majaideh, head of the National Security Forces in Gaza. Last year, according to senior Palestinian security sources, Majaideh was discovered to have been running a mortar factory in Gaza and selling his bombs to the highest bidder...
...Bush has phoned to solicit his counsel; the two men had a special meeting at the APEC summit in Shanghai last week. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are wooing Mahathir because "they feel they can use him as a voice for moderation in the Islamic world," says Razak Baginda, head of a pro-government think tank in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia's relations with the U.S. had been soured by American criticism of the jailing of Anwar. Mahathir has long been eager to mend ties with his country's biggest trade partner and investor, dispatching three separate envoys...
...problems, though, defy easy solution. The per capita income is a meager $469 per year. Its middle class is beset by an acute lack of affordable housing. Industry is virtually stagnant, and productive foreign investment is anemic. The country now imports half of its food. Says Abdel Razak Abdel-Meguid, the American-educated Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs: "Because of our favorable balance of payment statistics, the economy looks good on the outside. But inside it needs a lot of work...
Britain and France took somewhat different approaches to the terrorism that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
Died. Tun Abdul Razak, 53, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1970 who deftly laid down a nonalignment policy for his country and closely tended homegrown economic problems; of leukemia; in London...